What happens when a planned leak of a salacious detail (Sarah Palin couldn’t remember Biden’s name!) gets shadowed by a more salacious tidbit (Harry Reid referring to Obama’s non-negro dialect)? Viewers question your reasoning behind the piece. FNC’s Eric Shawn noticed that 60 Minutes aired an exclusive interview with Game Change authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann last night, and Palin was effectively the focus of the piece, with no mention of the Reid comment.

Hey, have you heard? Back in 2008 Senator Harry Reid lauded then-candidate Barack Obama for being a “light-skinned African-American with no negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” This is one of many interesting bits of information coming from Game Change, a new book that chronicles the 2008 presidential campaign, by John Heileman and Mark Halperin released today. Given the vast amount of coverage, one would think this is the story of the year thus far, at least evidenced by the following video montage:

Hot cable news topic? Airport Security! Controversial take? Let’s start profiling! Absurd example? Wasting time on checking elderly women! Wait…what? If for some reason you’ve missed cable news programming over the last two weeks, you’ve missed that exact narrative, over and again. And if you need proof that airport security is wasting too much time with 80 year-old Grandmas (at least in the eyes of cable news pundits), then please watch the following montage…

Ever find that sometimes when you’re talking with friends or co-workers that a certain word keeps getting repeated over and over again? Maybe it’s a flashy one or just a really useful one, but it just keeps making the rounds in e-mails or chit-chat? Well, you’re not alone – the media also loves to reuse [...]

Ever find that sometimes when you’re talking with friends or co-workers that a certain word keeps getting repeated over and over again? Maybe it’s a flashy one or just a really useful one, but it just keeps making the rounds in e-mails or chit-chat? Well, you’re not alone – the media also loves to reuse and recycle (not so much reduce). Welcome to Mediaite’s Meme Watch.